ARTICLE A
- REGULATION 70
OPERATION OF BANKING
ACCOUNT/PROVISION RELATING TO NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS.
1. Subject - Operation of banking account/provision
relating to Negotiable Instument.
2. Passing Authority - Board of Directors.
3. Nature of the Resolution -
Resolution with simple majority.
4. Specimen Resolution(s):
"RESOLVED
THAT: M/S A, B, C & D be and are hereby severally authorised to operate the
banking accounts of the company with State Bank of India, Main Branch, Chennai
and Mercantile Bank Ltd. Mount Branch,
such authority to operate the banking accounts to include, inter alia, the
authority to sign, draw, accept, endorse and negotiate cheques, hundies, bills
of exchange promissory-notes, dividend warrants and other documents relating to
goods lodged for collection or negotiation with any bank and the relative bank
or banks be authorised to honour cheques, hundies, bills of exchange,
promissory-notes, dividend warrants and other documents relating to goods
lodged for collection or negotiation with the bank signed, drawn, accepted,
endorsed or negotiated by any one of the above named persons and to act on any
instruction so given relating to the accounts whether the same by overdrawn or
not, or relating to the transactions of the company, it being specifically
declared that such authority shall extend both to the existing banking accounts
and to any banking account which may be opened in future in respect of the
company.
FURTHER
RESOLVED THAT a certified copy of the
above resolution be forwarded to the
Bank or Banks concerned as may be required from time to time."
5. Guidelines:
1) The
authority relating to Negotiable Instruments need not be linked with the
banking account.
2) The
authority maybe joint or several.
3) In
order to bind the company, the Negotiable Instruments should be drawn, accepted
made or endorsed in the name or on behalf of or on account of the company by
the person authorised (section 47).
6. Filing: Not
applicable.